The administration has made little secret of its near-total reliance on
drone operations to fight the war on terror. The ironies abound.
Candidate Obama campaigned on narrowing presidential wartime power,
closing Guantanamo Bay, trying terrorists in civilian courts, ending
enhanced interrogation, and moving away from a wartime approach to
terrorism toward a criminal-justice approach. Mr. Obama has avoided
these vexing detention issues simply by depriving terrorists of all of
their rights—by killing them.

Just to be clear, I don't take John Woo as an authoritative interpreter of Just War theory. But the argument that waterboarding is torture and indiscrimate killing of anyone who happens to be standing near someone who might be a friend of a friend of a terrorist is a moral improvement is absurd.